Tidal Surge

Lucky Duck

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Pretty regular I'm afraid. My neighbour trashed his big Merc there one Sunday. Stayed for one too many on the 19th Green, late for taking his wife down to the Coast Inn for lunch, I've a diesel, it doesn't matter, drowned his engine and got very wet and very cold! When his car was towed home, the doors were opened and water poured out. Insurance company6 took some pursuading that it wasn't negligence....... Usually one every set of springs.
 
0.74m above prediction at Walton right now - 21.12 and 0.99m at Silvertown. HW 00.07, 5.16m here at Mersea tonight. It was clearly a bigger than expected tide at lunch time judging by the puddles left. I hope the lighter at Heybridge I am tied alongside has some slack in her chains.... Three quarters of a metre on the HW level up there would make it the highest tide in the 30yrs I've been playing on the Blackwater.
 
Happened to find myself in Felixstowe this afternoon. Decided to do my thrice weekly power walk near the entrance to the Deben.

I managed to get within sixty yards of the Green Mid Knoll buoy without getting my feet wet. The water was still belting out.

Earlier I had been to Ipswich and noticed that the water was only a few feet below the top in New Cut.

The pressure does seem on the high side at present. But who knows.
 
Big tide at Gillingham. Got in the lock an hour before HW, and looked as though it could go on freeflow as river was only 2 inches above the marina level. After a further half an hour of filling of the marina (quite quickly) we had gone up 6 inches, and the river was still 2 inches higher.

Anybody see Brightlingsea as that is always good fun on a big tide. HM told me that he could dinghy up to the office one time.
 
Anyone remember the 9 Nov 2007 storm surge? This was the lock at Shotley...

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Yes, I was on a cross channel ferry heading for Calais and we had to heave-to off Blanc Nez because the tide was too high to dock. There were three ferries hove to in a line. Shame I didn't have a camera. The swell entering Calais was quite something.
 
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